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Japan might finally switch to romaji system you already use (japantoday.com)

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago

IIRC, it’s a holdover of a failed Meiji-era proposal to “modernise” Japanese by replacing its writing system with the Latin alphabet. (The one advantage it has over Hepburn is that it is unambiguous, and any Japanese text represented in it can be transliterated back into kana without guesswork.)